For those who would gain any benefit (or a chuckle) from this, here follows a questionnaire I recently filled regarding careers. Note: this questionnaire had to be filled in the context of a secularist platform and it necessarily entailed a brutal sort of honesty.




Tell us about your chosen career path. Where do you work? Would you consider this your dream job? Why?

I do not think the conglomerate of duties that enable me to survive can be considered as a “career.” I work as a journeyman in various construction sites. This is hardly my “dream job.” Those years wherein I had endeavored to attain to a baccalaureate in literary studies have come to naught. Worse still, they are now a distant memory to which I feel an invincible indifference.

How did you get to where you are now? What mistakes have you made? What would you do differently if you could go back?

The reason why my baccalaureate is little more than a piece of paper is because I refused to negotiate with the practicalities and logistics of real life. I became a demiurge of an ideal world wherein I inhabited amidst books and icons. Apparently, I had mistook this realm for the real world. Had I the opportunity to go back, I would have listened and put into practice a commencement speech delivered by David Foster Wallace wherein the now famous saying “This is water” is cited. I should have planned more carefully and assiduously, and should have been prudent and provident enough to make proper associations and fiduciary relationships that would have led to career opportunities.

What is the best thing about your job? What is the worst?

The best thing about my job is that it has definitely evicted me from the literary microcosm that I had fabricated and ornamented with such care throughout my years in academia. It has compelled me to be more connected to people and to learn about the vast and subtle differences that exist in the stratified socioeconomic construct that now exists in the American Republic.

What would you like to achieve in 10 years? Have your goals changed since the beginning of your career?

I must be honest. This question nauseates and terrifies me. In ten years I would not like to be around. My youthful idealism has been so crushed that I have arrived at the point wherein that for which I yearn is survival and some degree of contentment. If I am still around, I would like to conquer the practical nihilism that presently entraps me. I would like to have mastered Latin, learned German, to have fallen in love, &c. Essentially, my goal is to be functional and useful: if not for myself, then for others: and this is the most saddening aspect of my ridiculous predicament.

If someone with your personality type was just about to start looking for their first job, what advice would you give them?

I would advise such a person to strive for a balance between ideals and realities; to be more open-minded and affable; to build authentic and lasting connections both personally and professionally; to negotiate with the real world, but not become merchandise in the process; to strive for self-knowledge and build goals based thereupon.

Looking back at your career, what do you regret most? What makes you feel happy?

That which I regret most is the fact that I have been reduced to a practical nihilism. The residue of the literary microcosm of which I wrote above and the exigencies of circuмstance have made me into an abortion, one caught between two worlds: one dead and one powerless to come alive. That which makes me happy is the fact that I can delay the legitimate consequences of the aforementioned nihilism by reminding myself that I am useful and functional: at least I can readily create the illusion thereof as a construction worker.

In your opinion, which traits of your personality help you the most? Which ones are the most problematic?

The proclivity for emotive and cognitive excess is what both helps and hinders me the most. The same passion that may render the most daunting of academic tasks into a thing of delight and wonder is the same psychodynamic excess that can make the smallest of undesirable details of the logistics of the real world into an insurmountable bastion that paralyzes me.

If there was one thing you could change about your personality, what would that be?

The one thing I would change about my personality is the person whom it compasses round about: at once trapped in claustrophobic mania and yet ecstasiated in an excess of eleutheromania. I would, however, wish to be more practical and disciplined.




The last question could only have an adequate answer in the context of the Christian interior life: "to put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error" (Eph. iv. 22) and "put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth" (ibid. 24). It is the ultimate fruit of mortification: "And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. ii. 20).

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My advice for you, Boloki, would be to have recourse to prayer and penance before making such a momentous decision. It is not impossible to get through college without being brainwashed by the liberal machinery.

This has never been the case, me being brainwashed by them; what has been the problem is just being there and taking those courses; i get really angry because 99% of them are heretical, immoral, they have evolution etc. and i just don't like the idea of paying and getting in debt for all that garbage.

It's an occasion of sin too of course, just being in that environment.

I suggest you speak with a Priest whom you trust.

After prayer and meditation, consider other possibilities, such as technical/vocational schools geared toward getting a license that will get you job as a skilled worker.

Remember, though, you will encounter sin and occasions thereof wheresoever you go. If you think quitting college will save you from having to deal with liberals, marxists, feminists, deviants and other wackos, you are mistaken.

The best thing to do is to arm yourself with prayer, mental prayer/meditation, penance, mortification (both exterior and interior) spiritual reading, and detachment from self and other created things together with filial self-abandonment to the designs of Divine Providence.

Has anyone here been close to graduating and dropped out or just dropped out in any case?

Aren't you in your final semester or something like that?  You're just looking for another excuse to run away from the real world where people work--suppose a moral dilemma and fantasize taking the high ground and position yourself to spend several more years in mammy & daddy's basement although you apparently borderline hate them.  And the part about working your family's land--even though you're trying to shed your training wheels and get away from them you hate them so much?  I'm sure you'd imagine a zillion wild excuses for failure to keep suckling the teat.  Wow--grow up.

And if you detest the NO so much, what are you doing in one of their universities in the first place?  I'm not buying that you've been there 7 of 8 semesters and are now considering dropping out for any reason other than to sleep 16+ hours per day in your parents' basement.

What Latin American country do you live in? People here might be able to better direct you towards a traditional community, or know if your climate would be suitable for growing things on, or maybe for development (building another house, or even a trad parish that's independent of Rome — Lord knows everywhere could use more of those!)

He's 24 and should have been out of college 3 years ago.  The 3 years he spent laying in his parent's basement is indicative that he lacks the ambition to grow a tomato plant--let alone a crop.  And him building something????  Surely you jest.

ITA w/ Hobbledehoy: what are your career interests, or what are you particularly good at doing (skills) or most enjoy doing?

Sleeping in his parents' basement & eating breakfast at 2 in the afternoon.

Regardless, I think you can drop any classes you don't like (you're PAYING for them one way or the other, even if with your time, so don't fund terrible classes); and pick up some more maths, higher-level chemistry and physics can't hurt, languages, music.

Then he may actually graduate and that would make it more difficult for him to justify focusing on his strengths and interests:  Sleeping in his parents' basement & eating breakfast at 2 in the afternoon.

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Has anyone here been close to graduating and dropped out or just dropped out in any case?

Aren't you in your final semester or something like that?  You're just looking for another excuse to run away from the real world where people work--suppose a moral dilemma and fantasize taking the high ground and position yourself to spend several more years in mammy & daddy's basement although you apparently borderline hate them.  And the part about working your family's land--even though you're trying to shed your training wheels and get away from them you hate them so much?  I'm sure you'd imagine a zillion wild excuses for failure to keep suckling the teat.  Wow--grow up.

And if you detest the NO so much, what are you doing in one of their universities in the first place?  I'm not buying that you've been there 7 of 8 semesters and are now considering dropping out for any reason other than to sleep 16+ hours per day in your parents' basement.

You're dead wrong, and are committing the sin of rash judgment. You jump to conclusions without having any more evidence other than the little i have posted here.

The university i am going to just turned secular this semester, it was novus ordo the previous one, but the catalog is still the same and chances are they will tell me not to change to the new univ. catalog. So it's still basically novus ordo.

Supposedly, I have something like 3-4 semesters max to go. So i still have at least a year and a half and 2 years at the most.

I'm not trying to run away from anything. All i want is to keep the Faith and have my own house so i can have my own family and "be a man". Certainly you would agree living in - at least - a Catholic household is something anyone would want.

I have already said i don't hate them, just their beliefs, actions, omissions, lifestyle etc.

I have 3 sisters and they all dress uber immodestly and they are all pagans, and i have a brother who isn't married and yet is living with his "girl" next door and they just had a child, but my parents of course approve of all that and even praise immodesty and immorality. I have a novus ordo "chapel" something like 100m from my house where my other family members go.

If this alone doesn't get you righteously angry, then maybe you are ok with all that.

There are something like 15 people living in the property (in different houses of course) and they are all novus ordo and all are against me, so i am "alone" in that sense.

I would like to do something with the farm but at the same time i can't stand being with them because 99% of the time i speak with them they say something heretical, bad or take God's name in vain.

When i first got in the novus ordo univ. in 2010 i was in my "pagan days" and wasn't really practicing anything. But last year i "converted" again and now i can't stand it because now i am really trying to live the life so my "spiritual senses" are more alert.

It's quite good you believe in being a saint.

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I can't contribute anything to the family at the moment. I am simply going to college ....

You can't contribute anything at all???

Do you clean up your own messes? Do any of the garden? Prune trees? Chop wood? Paint? Clean? Babysit? Feed the poor? Visit an ailing neighbour?

Come on, put your thinking cap on :idea:

Then, if you give up college, you'll have more free time on your hands! I'm not saying you shouldn't give up college, but did you ever finish anything and say with satisfaction "I did that!"

You have too much time on your hands and you spend it on thinking about how bad your family is! Are you inspiring them with your behaviour?

You seem to forget, whatever your real name is, that salvation is the single most important thing for us humans and i will be doing them no good at all by being silent and appearing to "be ok" with them and by giving them false impressions which will only reassure them more in their ways.

Being "politically correct" with them and making it seem like it's all fine and dandy is nothing but pure indifferentism and a completely false "charity".